I am referring of course to the expression describing time. Today a corporate trainer (From north Philadelphia) that is teaching a class at my company used it in the context that the current time w...

What do lengths of time with the "bi" prefix mean"? I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. Do biweekly and bimonthly mean twice a week...

Dec 5, 2011 · However, my colleagues talk about having meetings biweekly. This causes a lot of confusion, since it can mean either once every two weeks or twice a week. We can use fortnightly to …

Dec 16, 2010 · On-time delivery is our goal. On-time flight departures were up 10%. On-time performance is an important ingredient However, if you're using the phrase on time as an adverb to …

Oct 27, 2014 · For example, in Russian, "three times two" can only be parsed as " [three times] two"; the parsing "three [times two]" is impossible. So wondering how English handles this is indeed a valid …

Jul 14, 2024 · In dialogue, it sounds like two time but Grammarly and Word correct it to "times." In the above correction, the hyphen is not optional. Word/Grammarly might have thought that you want …

In my view, if substantial numbers of English speakers and readers have conflicting understandings of the two terms—some taking the position that “X times as much as” and “X times more than” refer to …

Apr 3, 2012 · The two-word time point is running far ahead of the one-word timepoint (by a ratio of about 10-to-1, at this point in time, at least). However, who am I to argue with the likes of Campbell and …

Jul 19, 2017 · 8 Your sentence Both time work for me is almost correct. Because you modify the word time with the quantifier both it then becomes plural = times Times refers to two specific points in time …

Feb 23, 2012 · Possible Duplicate: Are there any words I can use to disambiguate “biweekly”? Is there a term two designate a frequency of "every two weeks", like …